Posted on 08/12/2023 9:16:50 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Six Miss Universe Indonesia contestants have filed complaints against pageant organizers following this year's pageant.
Mellisa Anggraeni, an attorney who is representing the women, claimed five of the contestants were asked to take off their tops for “body checks” two days before the final round of this year’s pageant on Aug. 3, according to Reuters and CNN.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Anggraeni alleged organizers said this was so they could “examine any scars, cellulite or tattoos on their bodies,” the BBC reported.
The women also claimed they were photographed topless while men were present, per the outlets.
"I feel that my rights have been violated," one contestant, whose face was blurred out by local broadcasters, told members of the media, per the BBC. “It has affected me mentally. I have had trouble sleeping.”
A local police spokesperson told reporters the formal complaints were filed on Monday and will serve as "the basis for our investigation," according to CNN
In a statement shared Monday on Instagram, Miss Universe Indonesia director Poppy Capella claimed the allegations are “baseless and false." Capella went on to say the pageant “prides itself on upholding the highest standards of fairness, transparency, and professionalism."
“We respect freedom of speech and the right to one’s opinion,” Capella added. “However, spreading unfounded and damaging allegations against our organization is not only reprehensible but potentially libelous.”
In a separate statement obtained by PEOPLE, the Miss Universe Organization says it has been made aware of the allegations, and that the organization “takes allegations of sexual abuse and impropriety extremely seriously.”
“Providing a safe place for women is the Miss Universe Organization’s utmost priority, and we are looking into this matter,” organizers said.
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Is this you? 😁
No, I use my hands.
My fingers can find the smallest of abnormalities in a women’s breast.
LOL
LOL
So, did it work? Where can I find any pics online? Someone else asked me to ask this.
The Miss Universe Pageant is rigged. Earth girls win every time.
(I know I have posted it before but it is one of my favorite jokes)
LOL, the old “turn your head to the left and cough” process!
My best friend who joined the Navy with me still talks about how, when we would get in a line to go to chow, our Company Commander (TM1 Mackelprang) would walk along in a bored tone and say “Get in closer. Nut to Butt. Nut to Butt.”
One of the ways they break you down (or did way back when) when you enter the military was to deliberately put you into awkward situations with respect to being unclothed in what feels like a public place.
Case in point was what was called “The A Shot”.
They classified all the shots (or groups of shots) with a letter designation such as the “A” shot, the “B” shot, etc, and most were forgettable.
But from the day we arrived in Boot Camp, we would get the “veterans” (guys who had been there a week or two longer than us) who would rag you as you marched by saying enthusiastically “Hey Boots, just wait until you get your “A” Shot!”
So, we were filled with foreboding, especially those, like me, who dreaded shots. Growing up as a military dependent, I had an extensive shot record with all kinds of inoculations that military people are familiar with, Bubonic Plague, Typhus, Yellow Fever, Cholera, etc. We had them all.
I hated needles, as a result.
Anyway, the day for the dreaded “A” shot came. They marched us into a huge room, had us all lined up in a row, and had us all drop our pants and underwear.
There are few things that can make you feel as utterly ridiculous as being lined up in a brightly lit room, and standing there with your trousers and boxers down around your ankles and everything hanging out in the breeze.
Of course being naked in a large group of people was itself not that awkward, and most guys had been taking public showers in high school gym class, football teams, etc. So that in and of itself was not what made it feel awkward.
What made it feel awkward was the fact that you were vulnerable, nervous, exposed, and didn’t know what to expect.
So, here we are, maybe 80 of us, lined up, motionless, pants around ankles, looking straight ahead, and they had a big stainless steel cart with all the giant syringes stacked on it, and each syringe had a huge needle attached to it. Apparently (as I was told) it was a shot of penicillin. It was a 50 cc syringe, which is giant.
This was back in the Seventies, and the administration of penicillin was ubiquitous. If you got the clap on liberty (and guys did) you had to go to Sick Call and get a shot in the ass. I never went, but guys who did described it to me, probably with embellishment.
They started at one end of the long row, and began by walking behind the line with the cart, and sticking that needle onto each guy’s buttock. No warning. No slap of the butt to distract you, not even a grab of the flesh and a pinch.
They just walked up behind you and stuck the needle in your derriere without even so much as a “By your leave”.
So, I am sweating it out, looking straight ahead, but in my peripheral vision, I could see them getting closer. Then, they stuck the guy next to me with that big ass needle. (it might have been my best friend, I cannot remember!) He let out a loud “Arrrrgggggghhh!” which completely terrified me! I thought they would warn me before sticking me, but they didn’t.
As the guy to my left was pulling up his trousers and stumbling away, I watched him with wide eyes and a pounding heart, waiting for them to say something like “Just hold still” but they didn’t.
They just plunged that big old needle into my bare buttock with no warning.
I let out an even louder “Arrrrgggggghhh!” than the guy before me, and clutching my collapsed trousers around the floor with hands that had turned into claws, I stumbled forward, clumsily pulling my pants up from my ankles even as I was walking away.
That shot hurt. There was what felt like solid baseball sized lump of penicillin in your butt cheek, and they made us do all kinds of exercises to try to make it break up or get absorbed faster, but for about four days to a week, it was damned sore.
I got over my fear of needles after I got out of the Navy, as I needed to give people injections for my job, but boy, I sure did hate those days of getting jabbed with all those needles!
Hahahah great scene!
I actually take supplemental testosterone for hypogonadism (abnormally low T levels), so I routinely give myself needles. I typically use my butt or my thigh muscle. I’ve tried to do the arm, but my hand started shaking when I attempted that one, so I went back to the other areas.
What’s really strange is when I get blood drawn, I usually simply cannot watch them stick that needle in. Here I am watching myself stick needles in my legs and my butt, but I cannot do THAT, for some reason.
I hear you. I am really thankful I got over that squeamishness. I never made a visible big deal of it, ever, that anyone would have ever seen. But inside, I sweated.
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